American Vogue - May 2008 - Shannan Click

American Vogue, Raymond Meier, Shannan Click, Women Blog
Raymond Meier photographed Shannan Click for American Vogue on January 30th & 31st, 2008 in the server room at 4 Times Square.
Last night, we were presenting the secure of the latest Tuscany Vogue's The holidays are version devoted to music. The secure was a amazing Kate Moss clothed into a Ziggy Stardust Mark Bowie.

The holidays are problem of the People from france version of the most powerful style journal also features Olivia Newton-John getting Bob Travolta, Darlene John and Boy Henry share a page, as well as Kanye Western, Baxter Dury, etc.

Looking at all these famous visitor celebrities and turning the pages of this journal which sometimes seems like checking out an art book, one question jumped up in my mind. What created Fashion the most powerful style magazine?

* A strong history: the roots of Fashion go returning to 1892 when Arthur Turnure established Fashion as a every week book in the United States and became popular in Tuscany and Tuscany returning in the 20's.

* The community is supposed to be to Vogue: with 16 nationwide editors-in-chief, Fashion journal protects most of the style planet, with versions in nations such as Indian, South america, Poultry and Taiwan!

* A questionable popularity fed my films such as the Demon would wear Prada in a roundabout way visualizing the legendary Ould - Wintour as the satanic force, no less!. Ould - Wintour, is, of course, the writer in primary of Fashion USA. Also, the 2009-released documented eligible The Sept Issue, provided an inside view of the production of the record-breaking Sept 2007 problem of US Fashion.

* Vogue's best and toughest asset: Ould - Wintour. The present editor-in-chief of American Fashion mentioned for her signature bob and her practice of dressed in eyewear inside your home, took over the famous journal in 1988, and has worked since then to secure the position of the paper. Since her introduction there she decided to make Fashion focus on making style accessible to a greater viewers. And she did it, enabling her to reach out to a wide viewers while getting the means to dig further to find the next trends!

* Focusing on growing economies: Another way Fashion uses to put in its effect it to start nationwide versions in growing financial systems such as Tuscany. Started in 1998, Fashion Tuscany was used to present European females to a new community of style and opportunities in a post-Socialist community.

* Including social value: Finally Fashion increases attention over issues on the present governmental plan. The burqa, for example, came out in a style propagate in Fashion in 2006 and the book has presented articles on popular Islamic females, their approach to style and the effect of different societies on style and womens lives.

The journal is today the 'world's most powerful style magazine', to quotation the NY Times.

Mary Sauer

Anna, oil on canvas, 40 X 30 in.
 

Carmen Kass - Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

Carmen Kass, Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin, Women Blog

Carmen Kass, Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin, Women Blog

Carmen Kass, Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin, Women Blog
Classic locks pictures can be seen in interval films, on some sites, or in a few guides. Femme Fatale: Well-known Ladies Then and Now (2001) is a huge picture publication by superstar hair stylist Serge Normant. It is complete of contemporary superstars dressed in vintage locks. The protect taken is Julia Roberts with a Twenties bob locks do.

There is one section for each several decades from 1900 to 2000. At the starting of each section, there are 10 to 20 pictures of non-celebrities with different interval locks. These are household images published to the writer. Then the several decades is presented with 1 web page of textual content without any pictures. It summarizes the activities of that interval and describes how they affected womens locks design. The relax of the section reveals only superstar pictures and has no textual content.

The company of the publication is easy in date purchase, but there is no desk of material which can help you identify a several decades or superstar. The webpages aren't designated except on the textual content web page which presents the section. At the returning of the publication there are four webpages of pictures like on a website; they have the brands of the superstars below them, but without the season corresponding to the locks do.

Femme Fatale was designed by the cooperation of three experts: Serge Normant, a top People from france hairdresser; Eileen Thompson, a famous design photographer; and Bridget Foley, a womens design journal writer.

The styles for the publication were done on top styles and stars. For example, you see the locks do conversions of the best 90's supermodels: Cindy Crawford; Christy Turlington; Claudia Schiffer; Kate Moss; and Carmen Kass. The foreword was published by English celebrity Age Hurley and there are some pictures of her in the publication. Because the concentrate is on top styles and superstars, there are few older females. The exclusions are: Leslie Sarandon; Ellen Barkin; and Linda Locklear. There are only a few dark-colored women: Alex Wek; Ananda Lewis; and Naomi Campbell.

The unforgettable styles are the ones on wonderful females which were significant conversions from how we normally see them these days, or those which are just definitely gorgeous:

1) Cindy Crawford has her locks up in a big traditional 1910s updo.

2) Ellen Barkin is innovative like Sixties alarm Bridget Bardot. There are two Bardot styles; for one her locks is up and for the other it is down.

3) Cate Blanchett seems to be absolutely different with a very brief pixie locks do from the 90's which is almost a team cut. Normant provides both the top part and part opinions of it.

Unfortunately there are not enough pictures for popular decades. For example, there are only four different superstar locks for the Thirties and another four for the 40s. For decades 40s locks have been the favourite vintage locks.

Even so, the few we see are amazing. There is Ellen Barkin as Jean Harlow with jewelry golden-haired surf, and Julianne Moore with extravagant lengthy red locks after a Rita Hayworth remodeling. Olga Pantushenkova has a Thirties chignon that would be ideal for a contemporary wedding; the top part is elegant and the returning is magnificent.

Femme Fatale is a publication of motivation but not instructions. It is very hefty with pictures but rather lighting on textual content. The three professionals did well, but it would have been much more useful if they had used a 4th professional who offered step-by-step guidelines on how to reproduce the vintage locks. It was unexpected that Normant himself did not offer the information because he designed the looks!

The subtitle "Famous Ladies Then and Now" could be misunderstood to mean that the publication contains images of Celebrities taken decades ago and lately. But there aren't any such old pictures; it only has contemporary superstars created up to look like old superstars and old images of females who aren't famous.

It is a fun publication for females who like to decorate their locks in high design or just desire a little. Unless you have plenty of some time to expertise to reproduce the locks styles by Serge Normant without guidelines, i.e., wondering and examining, you will want to use this publication to demonstrate your hair stylist what you want. To get a do-it-yourself information on vintage locks with step-by-step guidelines, your best bet is: Classic Hairstyling: Retro Styles with Step-by-Step Methods by Lauren Rennells.

INEZ VAN LAMSWEERDE, VINOODH MATADIN AND EUGENE VAN LAMSWEERDE

March 14 – May 3, 2008 Opening: March 13, 2008, 7-9 pm

The show is the third installment of an ongoing series entitled The Now People which began in 2003 at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.

Part Three: The Women includes some of the sculptural works from Life on Earth as well as an installation entitled The Seance, which is a collection of silk screened photographs pierced by metal as to actualize thoughts, energies, and emotions into a physical tangibility. Three large scale new photo works entitled Woman 1, 2 and 3 have been made specifically for this show that investigate the erotic portrait by means of sculpting Carmen Kass' face into a phallic shaped object.

This show contains only images of women inspired by new and old female archetypes: the feminist, the object, the demon, the earth mother, the trickster, the shaman and the innocent. Andreas Grimm Gallery

Inez & Vinoodh have photographed Carmen for French Vogue, Japanese Vogue, & the iconic Narciso Rodriguez perfume campaign.

Fifty-One Books and Counting!



by columnist Donna Shor
Photo credit:  Courtesy of The Hay Adams

Kay Enokido of The Hay Adams Hotel hosted a fascinating lunch for her Author Series, this time featuring Joyce Carol Oates and the signing of her latest novel “Mudwoman.”

Oates, America’s and possibly the world’s most prolific author, started writing at age fourteen after her grandmother happened to give her a typewriter.

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Spring

Alison Nix, Georgina Stojiljkovic, Inguna Butane, Kasia Struss, Masha Tyelna, Suzanne Diaz, Viktoriya Sasonkina, Women Blog

Alison Nix, Georgina Stojiljkovic, Inguna Butane, Kasia Struss, Masha Tyelna, Suzanne Diaz, Viktoriya Sasonkina, Women Blog

Alison Nix, Georgina Stojiljkovic, Inguna Butane, Kasia Struss, Masha Tyelna, Suzanne Diaz, Viktoriya Sasonkina, Women Blog
It is currently 57 degrees (14 degrees Celsius) and sunny in NY. I photographed Georgina relaxing on the roof today. Seen on the Women couch today-left to right:
Inguna Butane, Kasia Struss, Georgina Stojiljkovic, Suzanne Diaz, Alison Nix, Masha Tyelna & Viktoriya Sasonkina.

And the real stars shone....

Joe Mantegna greets an American hero
by contributor Maria Fda Giron R.
Photo credit:  PenFed Foundation

"I think people have forgotten the soldiers of America and is very sad that this country has a short memory!" said actor Joe Mantegna at the PenFed Foundation's 8th gala: "Night of Heroes Gala: Honoring the Heroes at Home" at the Ritz-Carlton.
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"California 37"




by senior contributor Brendan Kownacki

On May 23rd, Pat Monahan and the guys from Train stopped by The Hamilton in downtown DC for a private show with 94.7 Fresh FM, hosted by Tommy McFly and Kelly Collis. 

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My... that's a lot of chairs....

Doreen Gentzler

Photo credit: Neshan H. Naltchayan

The University of District of Columbia celebrated it's 160th Year of Scholarship and Achievement in the Nation’s Capital at the Mayflower Hotel.
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Yes. THAT Train.



by contributor Wendy Gordon
Photo credit: Brendan Kownacki

Ladies and gentlemen:  We give you Train.  No, We aren’t raising funds for Amtrak.  No.  We aren’t talking WMATA.  We’re talking the San Francisco based GRAMMY winning band.  Yes.  THAT Train.
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Do you have the right attitude to be the new Martini star?





Photo credit: GLOBAL LAUNCH OF MARTINI® Royale Casting with designer Christian Louboutin

"MARTINI, one of the most iconic brands in the world, launched a new campaign to find the next female MARTINI advertising star with Christian Louboutin as the international judge. 

Named after the MARTINI Royale drink, The MARTINI Royale Casting is a global search to find a woman who demonstrates the philosophy of MARTINI ‘LUCK IS AN ATTITUDE.’ 


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They....We....Are serious...


Ashley Judd

Photo credit: Neshan H. Naltchayan

“For some wonderful and improbable reason, I’ve been given extraordinary access to vulnerable people who shared with me their stories.  The girls and women have this remarkable desire to live, to improve their lives, to achieve their outcomes for themselves and certainly for their families.
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Maybelline SuperStay Spring/Summer 2012 campain: Julia Stegner

Maybelline Superstay Cosmetics S/S 2012 campaign
Model: Julia Stegner

Watch Behind The Scenes 10HR Stain Gloss Commercial on YouTube
Watch Superstay 14HR Lipstick Commercial on YouTube
Watch Behind The Scenes 14HR Lipstick Commercial on YouTube




Between rain and cocktails…

Amanda McClements, Winston Lord and Kate Bennett

by columnist Maria Fda Giron R.
Photo credit: Joy Asico

What would be the reason for Amanda McClements, DC’s resident food connoisseur at Metrocurean; Mark Drapeau of Microsoft; Svetlana Legetic, mastermind behind Brightest Young Things; Winston Lord of Venga and Rich Amons of The Real Housewives of DC to meet in one place on a rainy Wednesday night?
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Mamie's Mile....

CNN's Dana Bash

Photo credit: Neshan H. Naltchayan

Mamie's Mile is a one-mile walk/run to benefit The National Down Syndrome Society which took place in the Spring Valley neighborhood this year. 
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German Vogue June 2012 | Katrin Thormann & Toni Garnn by Peter Lindbergh

Vogue Germany June 2012 editorial
Models: Katrin Thormann , Toni Garrn
Photography: Peter Lindbergh
Stylist: Christiane Arp
Hair: Valentin
Make-up: Jose Sanchez




Behati Prinsloo for Seafolly Summer 2012 campagin, ph: David Gubert

Seafolly Summer 2012 campaign
Model: Behati Prinsloo
Photography: David Gubert

Read the Behati Interview on FABSUGAR.COM


Bojana Panic by Ali Kavoussi, May 2012

New Portraits May 2012
Model: Bojana Panic
Photography: Ali Kavoussi
Hair: Gianluca Mandelli
Make-up: Sae Ryun Song




Vogue Netherlands June 2012 cover: Guinevere van Seenus by Annemarieke van Drimmelen

Vogue Netherlands June 2012 cover
Model: Guinevere van Seenus
Photography: Annemarieke van Drimmelen
Stylist: Dimphy den Otter
Make-up: Suzanne Verberk

Your daily Cannes fix......

Sean Penn, Petra Nemcova, Paul Haggis


Photo credit: George Pimentel/Getty Images

“People say that a great actor is by nature egocentric and that a great director is focused on his art.  Sean Penn is both a great actor and director. 

What he does above and beyond that for the people and the land of Haiti, giving freely of himself, his abiding presence, his work – one could almost say the work of his own hands – his whole discreet, human, moral and altruistic involvement as a benefactor, commands our greatest respect.”   Gilles Jacob - critic, essayist, filmmaker and personality in the world of French cinema and first managing director of the Cannes Film Festival. 
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You've gotta have heart.....

Larry King with Murray SawChuck

Photo credit: Neshan H. Naltchayan

Larry and Shawn King along with dinner Chairman Daniel M. Snyder, Owner of The Washington Redskins, and event emcees noted Washington DC news anchor Leon Harris and ABC 7's Alison Starling honored Wayne LaPierre and Dr. Robert Salem CMO Emeritus Covenant Heath System at the Annual Gala.
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W Magazine June 2012 Look of The Month: Viktoriya Sasonkina by Plamen Petkov

W Magazine June 2012 Look of The Month
Model: Viktoriya Sasonkina
Photography: Plamen Petkov
Stylist: Jane Larkworthy
Hair: David von Cannon
Make-up: James Kaliardos

Lighthearted fun in Cannes....





Photo credit: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images

"Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" stars Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo who join a traveling circus in an effort to get back home to New York.
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"Bad Boy" gets his way, for good...

Giorgio Armani, Sean Penn, Petra Nemcova, Paul Haggis and Lyle Lovett

Photo credit:  Vittorio Zunino Celotto/WireImage for Electrolux 2012

Sean Penn is angry as hell and not going to take it anymore.  

He didn't have to at The Festival de Cannes which welcomed "Haiti: Carnival in Cannes," a benefit event presented by Giorgio Armani in support of Sean Penn’s J/P HRO, Paul Haggis’ Artists for Peace and Justice and Petra Nemcova’s Happy Heart’s Fund for their united and extraordinary work in Haiti.
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W Magazine Trends June 2012 | Shannan Click by Patric Shaw

W Magazine Trends June 2012 cover and editorial
Model: Shannan Click
Photography: Patric Shaw
Stylist: Felicia Garcia-Rivera
Hair: Rutger
Make-up: Stevie Huynh






99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.....



Well actually  ......  if you take all the possible kinds of beer in the US, there would be closer to 13,000 bottles of beer on your wall according to the National Beer Wholesalers Association. 
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Allure June 2012 | Carmen Kass by Terry Tsiolis

Allure June 2012 editorial
Model: Carmen Kass
Photography: Terry Tsiolis
Styling:Paul Cavaco
Hair: Rolando Beauchamp
Make-up: Niki M'Nray






What's for dinner?

Hmmm...too close for comfort?

Photo credit: Neshan H. Naltchayan

Well, the dinner menu would depend on what side of the fence you're on.  Just sayin'.
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On the road again....



by contributors Brendan Kownacki
and Wendy Gordon


Kababji Grill, Dupont Circle's Lebanese treasure, is expanding their hold in the DC area............but it's not a new store front they are opening.  Instead, their newest venture is a food truck to spread their signature cuisine across the city. 
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Teen Vogue June/July 2012 | Brittany Burke by Jason Kibbler

Teen Vogue June/July 2012 editorial
Model: Brittany Burke
Photography: Jason Kibbler
Stylist: Heathermary Jackson
Hair: Odile Gilbert
Make-up: Fulvia Farolfi




Wonderland April/May 2012 | Yulia Kharlapanova by Bruno Staub

Wonderland April/May 2012 editorial
Model: Yulia Kharlapanova
Photography: Bruno Staub
Stylist: Anthony Unwin
Hair: Jason Muillo
Make-up: Thorsten Weiss